The poet Aga-dede from Dobor grad about his homeland and the death of Osman II.

Abstract

The author of this work (now dead) Osman Asaf Sokolović found about 1938. in a collection of scattered old manuscripts two poems, from till then unknown Bosnian writer Aga-dede, a native of Dobor town near Modriča in Bosnian Posavina. The poems are from the begining of the XVII c, written in Turkish. In the first song are given the reflections upon the cultural and social relations in the Bosnian settlements: Dobor grad, Jakeš, Modriča and Odžak, in the secod Aga-dede describes the death of the Turkish sultan Osman II., whom Ivan Gundulić, a poet from Dubrovnik has in his verses im-mortalized. In contrast to Gundulić, Aga-dede shows his undisquised simpathves for janissary rebels, among which there were many Bosnians. Aga-dede had besides these two poems, rewritten the poem »Džamazbnama« (Džamazb is a hero from Firdausi's Shah Nameh) but this work was not preserved. Sokolović gives here the introductory essey and the transliteration of the mentioned two poems.